Bill-posting blanking device.



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PAUL GALLIA, OF GAINESVILLE, TEXAS.

BILL-POSTING BLANKING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 26 191 t Application filed September 20, 1916. Serial No. 121,173.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL GALLIA, a citizen of theUnited States, and a resident of Gainesville, in the county of Cooke and State of 'iexas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bill-Posting Blanking Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bill-posting, particularly with respect to the requirement that every poster, regardless of its size, shall have a border of white paper around it. As these posters are often of considerable height and length a great deal of trouble has heretofore been experienced in getting this blank strip in place, especially at the top of the poster and frequently in a high wind, and it was in order to overcome this trouble that my invention was conceived.

My invention is fully described in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which like characters refer to like parts in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is an elevation of the outer side of my device, in use, partly broken away to show structural details;

Fig. 2 is an edge view thereof, looking from the right of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 4 represents a tubular holder for a handle 5 of any desired length, and which holder is provided with a rod 6 extended beyond the upper end thereof and with two guides, 7 and 8, arranged perpendicular to the axis of the holder 1 for a sliding frame 9 including rods 10 and 11 slidably arranged in the respective guides 7 and S and a rod 12 arranged parallel with the axis of the holder 4 and extended beyond the rod 10.

The rod 12 carries a rigid knife-blade 13 at its outer end and a roller 14, and the frame rod 10 is provided with a coil spring 15 tending to draw the knife-blade toward the axially arranged rod 6, a sleeve or cover 16 being screw-threaded onto the guide 7 as a protection for the rod 10 and spring 15.

The axially arranged rod 6 is of considerably less diameter than that of the holder 4 whereby a shoulder is provided at the outer end of the holder against which a sleeve 17 bears and which sleeve 17 carries a roll of the paper strip 18 which it is desired to utilize as a border for the poster.

The sleeve 17 carries a disk 19 at its outer end for protecting the roll of paper from paste and the roller 14L bears against said paper roll and serves as a brake to prevent too free unrolling thereof, the knife edge being arranged close to the paper roll or in actual contact therewith, the spring 15 maintaining the roller and knife blade in such relative positions during the reduction in diameter of tie paper roll due to the re moval of the paper strip.

In practice, the bill-board may be pasted in the usual way along the edge of the poster, after which the free end of the paper strip is applied to one corner of the board and tacked in place by means of the paste brush, after which the blanking device is moved along the board to unroll the paper strip therefrom for the full length of the board, said strip being secured in place by the brush as it unrolls and, when the opposite corner of the board has been reached, the device may be manipulated to tear the strip at any desired place by means of the knife-blade 13 to fit into this last named corner.

It will be seen that, by means of my device, there is no free paper strip to flap about in the wind or to get twisted or be run crooked, my device not only insuring the feeding of just enough paper strip and cutting the same from the roll, but also serving as a guide for the strip along the edge of the board.

When a roll of paper is exhausted, all that is necessary is to remove the sleeve 17 and pass the same through a new paper roll and again mount the same on the rod 6, the rod 12 and connected knife-blade and roller readily yielding for this purpose because of the spring 15.

My device is very simple though highly eiiicient and, while I have shown certain preferred structural details, I do not desire to limit myself thereto, as many changes there over may suggest themselves which will come within the spirit of the invention, and within the scope of the appended claims.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A device for applying strips of paper to bill-boards, comprising a holder, a handle connected with said holder whereby the holder may be operated at an appreciable distance from the person grasping the holder, a spool arranged on the holder and designed to carry a roll of paper, a roller bearing against said roll of paper, a frame for carrying said roller, said frame being provided with a pair of bars extending transversely of the holder, a spring arranged on one of said bars for urging the same in such a direction as to cause said roller to press against said paper, and means for guiding said transverse bars in their movement.

2. A device for applying strips of paper to bill-boards, comprising a holder, means for mounting a roll of paper rotatably on the holder, a pair of tubular guides connected to said holder below the roll of paper and extending in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the holder, a rod extending through each of said guides, a spring Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

bearing against one of said guides and against one of said rods for urging both of said rods in a given direction, a bar connected with said rods, a roller supported by said bar, said bar and roller being urged in such a direction as to cause theiroller to press against said paper, and a knife carried by said bar positioned to rest against said paper.

3. A device for applying a strip of paper, comprising a holder, provided with an extended rod, a sleeve rotatable on said rod for supporting a roll of paper, a paper protecting disk at the outer end of said sleeve, a spring controlled frame slidable transversely on said holder, a knife-blade carried by said 35 frame and a roller carried by said frame and heldyieldingly against said paper roll.

PAUL GALLIA.

Washington, D. G. 

